I'm completely new at this...

Signed up in this forum last week sometime and came across a thread in here that stated "we shouldn't believe any of you and your claims..." I guess this is my response to these threads (I believe there was two in the last several days).

I see all these threads where people are frustrated because they haven't made a sale or adsense doesn't show six digit figures. Does this mean I should be excited? On Sunday March 7th, after six months of research, I finally decided to take the plunge into this whole world of "internet marketing." Now two weeks later I couldn't be more happy with the results.

Naturally, my adsense account doesn't show $1000 daily. But in these two weeks and with a little bit of advertising (as a test) I've made $30. I stopped paying for the advertising and obviously my adsense has dropped to nearly nothing. What the test proved to me was that my niche will become profitable once traffic arrives. This is why I will continue my marketing efforts for this project.

I am posting this because I want other newbies like me that are just now coming onto this board to see that there are people who are successful at this. That, unlike the posters in those "don't believe anything" threads, it is possible to make this work for you. I want to be successful at this and have been working damn hard to do so.

Something I've noticed about these early days is that this is certainly not easy. Today alone I've spent 10 hours on my site and marketing efforts. I am a results driven person and I look at each and every way where I can improve my site and methods.

Because of this hard work I feel I have been rewarded by the all mighty Google as my page ranks 251st out of 14 million. As I said I'm two weeks in and I don't think anything else could motivate me more than that eventual 1st page ranking.

Bottom line is that it is my hope that another newbie like me can come in here and see this thread, to understand that those "make $1000 daily" claims are most likely true because at one point there were in the same position as us newbies.

Understandably, my measly $30 in two weeks is just pennies to the big boys that roam here and other forums I frequent. But to me it shows that with a little tenacity this can be a very viable form of income. And at least I'm not in here bitching because I followed "$100,000 a day Guru's ebook" to the tee and didn't make a dime in an over-saturated niche....